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'Our democracy is at stake,'

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:36:56 +0000

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'Our democracy is at stake,' Obama says on Virginia campaign trail

Stumping for Ralph Northam in the governor's race, the former president rails against 'the politics of fear.'

By Edward-Isaac Dovere @ Politico.com, 10/19/2017 10:22 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. — “It is time.”

Ralph Northam, the Democratic candidate for governor, finished his own speech, said those words, and the crowd of more than 7,000 erupted. Then U2’s “City of Blinding Lights” from all the way back in the 2008 campaign started playing, and Barack Obama made his return to the campaign trail here Thursday night.

Fresh from New Jersey after making an appearance for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate there, Phil Murphy, his own former ambassador to Germany, Obama uncorked. He argued that this year’s elections are an existential moment that should — if Democrats do what he’s kept telling them to do, without much success — vote — be the start of reasserting an American politics and society that turns away from what’s embodied by President Donald Trump [....]

and by the same reporter!

George W. Bush slams Trumpism, without mentioning president by name

'Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication,' Bush declared.

Updated 10/19/2017 06:04 PM EDT

George W. Bush’s unmistakable

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:30:38 +0000

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George W. Bush’s unmistakable takedown of Trumpism — and Trump

Analysis by Aaron Blake @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 19

[....] Speaking at a George W. Bush Institute event in New York, Bush didn't use Trump's name, but his target became clearer as the speech progressed. Here's a sampling:

“Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.”

“We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism.”

“We’ve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. . . . Argument turns too easily into animosity.”

“It means that bigotry and white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed, and it means the very identity of our nation depends on passing along civic ideals.”

“Bullying and prejudice in our public life … provides permission for cruelty and bigotry.”

“The only way to pass along civic values is to live up to them.”

Any one of these quotes in isolation could be dismissed as highflying rhetoric aimed at the general coarsening of our political culture — or the rise of forms of nationalism and extremism that clearly exist outside the Oval Office.

But almost each of these quotes has some connection to Trump [...]

I liked the little smirk

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:21:36 +0000

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I liked the little smirk after he said the line at the end of the video and got rousing applause.

Wow. I'm not going to talk

ocean-kat — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:16:59 +0000

In reply to Badly delivered as always,

Wow. I'm not going to talk about what the speech said or the how well Bush delivered it. What is shocking to me when compared to a Trump speech is the level of complexity in the ideas expressed and the level of vocabulary. After listening to several speeches Trump read that others wrote for him I don't think Trump could convincingly read that speech because he wouldn't understand the ideas. He would be mispronouncing and stumbling over words that aren't a part of his vocabulary.

Jennifer Rubin of WaPo and

rmrd0000 — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:03:18 +0000

In reply to Without Saying ‘Trump,’ Bush and Obama Deliver Implicit Rebukes

Jennifer Rubin of WaPo and Charlie Sykes author of “How the Right Lost It’s Mind” are trying to talk sense to Trump supporters. No Liberal is going to be able to convince Trump supporters that they made an error. As Rubin notes, the GOP is now the party of Roy Moore.

Badly delivered as always,

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 02:49:32 +0000

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A snippet, badly delivered as always, but with some pretty incredible language:

Former President George W. Bush defended free trade and railed against populist rhetoric in an implicit criticism of President Trump. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Seth Wenig/Associated Press